Read the excerpt from the play within a play in Act III of Hamlet.Player Queen:O! confound the rest; Such love must needs be treason in my breast: In second husband let me be accurst; None wed the second but who kill’d the first.Hamlet:[Aside.] Wormwood, wormwood.Player Queen:The instances that second marriage move, Are base respects of thrift, but none of love; A second time I kill my husband dead, When second husband kisses me in bed.
Answer
t
treats women unkindly.
d
does not believe in true love.
i
is critical of his mother’s choices.
s
suspects his mother will kill Claudius.
Explanation
The Player Queen says that marrying a second husband would be like killing her first husband again. Hamlet’s aside, “Wormwood, wormwood,” signals his bitter reaction because his mother married Claudius after his father’s death. He is criticizing her choice, not claiming that she will literally kill Claudius.
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